Applications are now open for SEforALL Round 2 of the Powering Healthcare Innovation Fund (grants of up to USD 80,000 each)
Closing Date: 8 September 2025
Applications are now open for SEforALL Round 2 of the Powering Healthcare Innovation Fund (grants of up to USD 80,000 each)
Are you an innovator with a passion to accelerate access to electricity in healthcare facilities? Do you have out-of-the-box ideas in sustainability, research, data, capacity building or technical assistance, to catalyse healthcare electrification? Are you seeking a small grant to help you turn your ideas into reality?
Then the SEforALL Round 2 of the Powering Healthcare Innovation Fund might be just what you’re looking for! Offering small grants of up to USD 80,000 each, the Fund aims to unlock brilliant innovative solutions to transform the health facility electrification sector.
Innovation Fund
While substantial progress has been made in health facility electrification in recent times, challenges persist, particularly in regions with weak infrastructure and limited financial resources. The business-as-usual approach is proving inadequate and out of date. The sector is lagging behind in the adoption of new ideas and innovations that can help it scale and become more sustainable.
The Powering Healthcare Innovation Fund is a small-grants facility, offering grants aimed at unlocking out-of-the-box opportunities and ideas, thereby growing innovation in the sector. This initiative is funded with UK aid from the UK government via the Transforming Energy Access Initiative (TEA) programme.
Round 2 of the Powering Healthcare Innovation Fund
The second funding cycle of the Powering Healthcare Innovation Fund is now open. The fund will offer 3-6 grantees funding of up to USD 80,000 per grantee for a maximum of 10 months. The total available funding this cycle is USD 300,000.
Proposed innovations can be from, but not limited to, the following fields:
- Support or capacity building to organisations or entities involved in HFE initiatives (e.g. business development support or technical training)
- New financing models or mechanisms (e.g. de-risking of investments)
- Operations and maintenance or longer-term sustainability mechanisms
- Research projects with universities
- New ways of running health facilities (e.g. management, logistics)
- Feasibility studies or assessments (e.g. on energy efficiency or climate resilience)
- Data (e.g. how to collect and analyse better data, or the use of AI)
Applicant eligibility
The following categories of applicants are eligible to apply under this Call for Proposals:
- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)
- Foundations
- Indigenous peoples organizations (IPOs)
- Civil society organizations (CSO)
- Grass-roots organizations
- Institutions or federations
- Ethnic organizations
- Academic and research institutions
- For-profit entities
Applicant country of registration and nationality
The lead applicant must be legally registered in one of the countries listed below but can undertake work in any country on the list. The lead applicant can also target more than one country on this list for the implementation work.
Eligible countries include:
Sub-Saharan Africa
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Ghana
- Kenya
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Nigeria
- Rwanda
- Sierra Leone
- Tanzania
- Uganda
- Zambia
Activities under grant/funding
The solutions can be from the following fields:
- Support or capacity building to organisations or entities involved in HFE initiatives (e.g. business development support or technical training)
- New financing models or mechanisms
- O&M or longer-term sustainability mechanisms
- Research projects with universities
- New ways of running HFs or aspects of them (e.g. management, logistics)
- Feasibility studies or assessments (e.g. on energy efficiency or climate resilience)
- Data (e.g. how to collect and analyse better data, or the use of AI)
Small grants will not be granted exclusively to the examples above; these are just potential examples of the types of innovative solutions that can be proposed. Infrastructure projects will not be considered in this round of the Innovation Fund. This includes any type of installation or implementation of equipment or energy systems, including any wiring or electrical work involving any energy systems, appliances or smart meters. However, grants can include equipment or software that doesn’t need to be installed or require any sort of electrical work to be undertaken (e.g. tablets, phones etc.)
Technical Assistance Facility
Interested applicants can also apply for bespoke support on developing grant applications for the Innovation Fund through the the Transforming Energy Access Technical Assistance (TA) Facility. The deadline to apply to the TA facility is 3rd August 2025 at 23:59 UTC. Find the full details, eligibility criteria, and steps to apply here.
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